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  • The Rise of Gospel Blues

    The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

    by Michael W. Harris ...
    In the early 1930s an exciting new musical form arose in Chicago known as the gospel blues. The principal figure in the creation of this distinctive music was a blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for such prominent blues singers as Ma Rainey. In the 1930s, Dorsey became increasingly involved in the African-American ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Rise of Gospel Blues

    The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

    by Michael W. Harris ...
    In the early 1930s an exciting new musical form arose in Chicago known as the gospel blues. The principal figure in the creation of this distinctive music was a blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey, who had considerable success in the 1920s as a pianist, composer, and arranger for such prominent blues singers as Ma Rainey. In the 1930s, Dorsey became increasingly involved in the African-American ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Talking Music: Blues Radio and Roots Music

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    Talking Music is a collection of nineteen of Holger Petersens in-depth radio interviews with artiststhe pioneering men and women who created the blues and roots sounds that have influenced the course of popular culture and music in North America. Many of his interview subjects are no longer with ustheir stories need to be told. The book is divided into four collections of interviews: British Blues ... Read more

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  • Willie Dixon

    Preacher of the Blues

    by Mitsutoshi Inaba ...
    Series series African American Cultural Theory and Heritage
    One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, Dixon's work influenced countless artists across the music spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi Inaba examines Dixon's career, from his earliest recordings with the Five Breezes through his major work with ... Read more

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  • Mississippi John Hurt

    His Life, His Times, His Blues

    by Philip R. Ratcliffe ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful, authentic past. His intricate and lively style made him the most sought after musician among the many ... Read more

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  • The Power of Black Music

    Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

    by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. ...
    When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and ... Read more

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  • In The Break

    The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

    by Fred Moten ...
    Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Words on Music

    Quotations from the greats of popular music

    by Brian Westland ...
    You've heard the music and read the biographies. Now gain insight to the greats of popular music through their own words. This book is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes from the premier artists of pop, rock, jazz, and the blues.Comments on the business of making music are found here as well as many fascinating and often surprising observations on life in general. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Celebrating Bird

    The Triumph of Charlie Parker

    by Gary Giddins ...
    Within days of Charlie “Bird” Parker’s death at the age of thirty-four, a scrawled legend began appearing on walls around New York City: Bird Lives. Gone was one of the most outstanding jazz musicians of any era, the troubled genius who brought modernism to jazz and became a defining cultural force for musicians, writers, and artists of every stripe. Arguably the most significant musician in the ... Read more

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  • The Circle of Fifths

    Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

    by Philip Jackson ...
    Series Book 1 - Visual Tools for Musicians
    Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Blues

    by Marybeth Hamilton ...
    Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only ... Read more

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  • R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

    by R. Crumb ...
    Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb ... Read more

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